Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 42

At last he had to stop in his career, and the engine ran over his hind legs, and crushed them; for I set upon it.

Who acts: hare, engine, I · What happens: have, stop, run, crush, set · To what, where: last, career, hind legs, legs, engine

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, engine, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 career	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 career	nmod:poss
9	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 engine	det
13	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 legs	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 legs	nmod:poss
17	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ran	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crushed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crushed	cc
21	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 crushed	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 set	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 set	nsubj
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	hare		last	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	hare not said here		hare's career	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in career=Location
3	run	past	the engine		hare's hind legs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over leg=Trajectory
4	crush	past	hare not said here	legs = leg		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	set	present	I		engine	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon it=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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